His training at both the Escola de Arte Antonio Failde in Spain and the Marmara University Institute of Fine Arts in Istanbul outfitted him with the artistic tools necessary to blend fine art painting abilities with the meticulous technical drafting techniques that form the basis of his current series.
Having started out as a photo-realist painter, I shifted my focus from paint's capacity to mimic the sharp reality that photographs can capture, to paint's ability to illustrate memory and imagination.
It reminded me of what is special about landscape painting — the ability to transport you to another time and place.
Cameras may not lie, but artists are by definition free to embellish, and in live-event painting, the ability to fictionalize is part of the appeal.
Through Tuesday For more than two decades, Howard Buchwald has been entranced by the eternal paradox of painting: its ability to be read at once as literal surface and illusory depth.
No other artist enjoyed that twin ability at painting reality in refined detail while portraying sitters with such a punch in his psychological scrutiny.
The artist has worked with oils since she was a teenager, drawn to the natural feeling of the paint as opposed to acrylics, and the paint's ability to be reworked over and over.
Give your son an honorable vision for manhood: Moms, to the best of your ability, paint a picture of manhood for your son built on honor, courage, commitment, sacrifice, love, compassion, forgiveness, wisdom and grace.
Incrementally, Marlow learns more about the mysterious Kurtz about his civilized traits (his painting, musical abilities, and great eloquence), his charismatic, god-like power over the natives, and the severed heads that surround his hut.
